[jmkni]

I've gotten really into Slack recently.

I just log everything ye old fashioned way (text files) and then post anything important/noteworthy to a couple of Slack channels.

It's really easy to build custom integrations and Slack is running on all of our devices so as long as we are all subscribed to the relevant channels I can target @channel in my integration and we know straight away if something bad is happening.

I've use the ELK stack on previous projects, it works really well and isn't that difficult to use (there are some great guides on Digital Ocean) and when I get the time I'm going to set it all up for my current project too.

The only thing is you have to host it somewhere, and it's more justifying the budget for that.

[BloodKnight9923]

I use slack for a lot of notifications too. We strapped a python chatbot on as an integration and gave the bot access to our product which made asking the bot what's happening really easy.

Chatops are catching on, and I'm intrigued. Thanks for the response!

[ghilston]

Hey, feel free to checkout my library on GitHub. Its goal is to simplify interacting with Slack API (which is amazing IMO) and let users focus on simply writing their bot.

Its still very much in development, but figured this thread was relevant enough for me to post a link.

https://github.com/GregHilston/Simple-Slack-Bot

[BloodKnight9923]

Hah. I went to college with you. Small world. Will check out your library, I've been doing a lot of work with chatbots over the last year, focused on Slack. I've only really been working with Java solutions though, so a python library is a nice change of pace.

Thanks for the link!

[ghilston]

Oh hey man! Please do, feel free to use it in its current state, but the dev branch will be merged to Master shortly and break current compatibility.

Its a sweet simple library to make slack bots real simple!